as in labor
very hard or unpleasant work
in the "good old days" household servants led lives filled with much drudgery and little pleasure
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Recent Examples of drudgery
He and Carl are joined by Rose (Leah Byrne), a junior officer looking to do something that matters instead of the drudgery of paperwork.
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Nina Metz Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, 1 June 2025
In the run-up to Friday's premiere, the Apple TV+ marketing team recreated Severance's drab-chic cubicles inside a glass box in the iconic station's Vanderbilt Hall, a place whose grandness belies the drudgery plaguing so many of the commuters crossing through it.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 15 Jan. 2025
The bar where everyone knows his name is his refuge from the day-to-day drudgery of his job as an accountant.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Venture capitalists speak of a future in which AI agents will sort through the drudgery of daily busywork and free us up to live our best lives.
—Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 20 May 2025
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Nina Metz Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, 1 June 2025
In the run-up to Friday's premiere, the Apple TV+ marketing team recreated Severance's drab-chic cubicles inside a glass box in the iconic station's Vanderbilt Hall, a place whose grandness belies the drudgery plaguing so many of the commuters crossing through it.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 15 Jan. 2025
The bar where everyone knows his name is his refuge from the day-to-day drudgery of his job as an accountant.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Venture capitalists speak of a future in which AI agents will sort through the drudgery of daily busywork and free us up to live our best lives.
—Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drudgery
Noun
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Part-time working mothers do 2.4 times as much child care and household labor as part-time working fathers.—
Lauren Giella,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Aug. 2025
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What matters is whether that person is curious, inquisitive and understands the labor and management dynamic.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Waiting there for us was Rhubarb the python snake, who's a member of the zoo's animal ambassador program, which means she was selected to help promote the zoo's conservation efforts and represent her species.—
Grace Tucker,
The Enquirer,
23 July 2025
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Additionally, integrating agentic AI requires significant initial effort, including connecting diverse ticketing systems, unifying data silos and training models on historical case data.—
Varun Milind Kulkarni,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
Noun
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Poets toil as often-anonymous individuals building some greater nest, colony, or hive that might outlast us or end up squashed and swept away unceremoniously.—
Hannah Brooks-Motl
June 2,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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More than a decade of physical and mental toil has caught up with me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
Noun
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That modern-day descendants of slaves seven generations removed from the Civil War — in a state that never instituted slavery — should not receive cash payments or special treatment is obvious and common sense.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 July 2025
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In 2024, she was denied a visa to Australia following remarks that minimized the Holocaust and controversial claims about Islam and slavery.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 July 2025
Noun
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The Botox injections work by blocking a neurotransmitter that triggers sweat production.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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These block chemicals that activate sweat glands, the organs that make sweat.—
Brandi Jones,
Health,
30 July 2025
Noun
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Jackson hoped that the exhibition would counter the misconception that medieval women were universally downtrodden drudges.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
10 July 2025
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The corporate laborers of the industrial age were drudges, and might have needed the scaffolding of managerial hierarchies to make widgets in bulk.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Because carbohydrate stores are depleted, the levels of sugar in the blood are low, which can cause fatigue, lightheadedness or dizziness.—
Michal Ruprecht,
NPR,
29 July 2025
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In 2025, personal touch and human logic are vital for combating the fatigue often associated with a lack of genuine connection.—
Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
29 July 2025
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There might only be a few starters from this group, but this collection of players can be key to rounding out the roster for the grind of a season Freeman hopes goes deep into January.—
Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
28 July 2025
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If you’re done with the grind, fed up of chasing up and convinced there’s another way, here’s what to do instead.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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“Drudgery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drudgery. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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